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Jennifer ''Jen'' Rijkers, also known as The Druid, is one of the two main antagonists of the third season of the horror anthology series Slasher, titled Solstice.
She is a tennant of the Clayborne Apartments who (along with her brother Connor) is copycating a serial killer in order to get revenge on the other tenants for driving her mother to suicide.
She is portrayed by Mercedes Morris. In-costume scenes as The Druid were portrayed by Geoff Scovell and Brook Jones.
Her Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Her Heinous?[]
- After her brother Connor attempts suicide, she leads him astray by convincing him of committing a series of brutal tortures and murders against the tenants of the Clayborne apartments due to them leading her mother to suicide.
- Jen was the first one to break the generally monstrous Heinous Standards of the series by giving some of the most horrid, cruel and shocking deaths of the show and television in general along with her brother.
- Dunks Cassidy Olenski’s face in a toilet full of acid, brutally disfiguring and killing her.
- Commits one of the most disgusting, unwatchable and untasteful moments of the show by vivisecting Kaili Greenberg, her biology teacher.
- This act is specially bad because Kaili is considered one of the most (if not the most) undeserving victims of the show, being a generally affable and kind character who was only guilty of denying a ride to a drunk Kit Jennings because he hurt her feelings, completely unaware a killer was following him.
- It gets worse because this was not the reason why Jen killed her, but just because she thought she was ''fake nice'' for not helping her family while they were harassed by the other tenants (action that led her mother to suicide). While she didn't help her that moment, Kaili was nothing but understanding to her and even protected her when she was being harassed by the school's bullies that were making fun of her tragedy and even offered her to do her final exams other day. Her torture and death was an important MEH breaker that heavily weakened Jen's sympathetic state to the audience.
- This act is specially bad because Kaili is considered one of the most (if not the most) undeserving victims of the show, being a generally affable and kind character who was only guilty of denying a ride to a drunk Kit Jennings because he hurt her feelings, completely unaware a killer was following him.
- Drills Amy Chao's forehead.
- This is another moment that partially shredded Jen's sympathy, as she took Amy's inability to scrub the harassing posts off the internet as uncompliance, even if she respecfully addressed that it wasn't possible to do so.
- Shoves a big sharp sword down Charlie's throat,
- Shoves Detective Pujit's face into blender blades, completely destroying his face and giving him a really painful and gruesome death.
- Kidnaps both Angel Lopez and Dan Olenski, glues both of their faces together and leaves them to kill each other in an abandoned room at the apartments basement.
- Finally, she kills her own mentally ill step-mother Amber Ciotti by stabbing her to death with sadistic fury, just because she blamed her for the death of her mother Justine, and said that her attacks and demands pushed Justine over the edge. However, Amber was remorseful and fell into insanity after her suicide.
- Manipulates Saadia Jalalzai, her best friend, to try and convince her that she is not Druid after Connor stages an attack on Jen. Jen also uses Saadia an alibi so that her nor Connor could be caught, when the police starts investigating the murders.
- Threatens Dan Olenski and says that if he doesn't get her vodka for the Solstice party, that she'll lie to Detective Roberta Hanson and say that he abused Cassidy (his daughter) which was untrue. When he denies that claim, Jen says that Roberta never believe him.
- While Dan was a white nationalist, who contributed to Justine's death, and arguably deserved it due to his hate crimes and comments towards The Rijkers', it was extremely petty of Jen to do this, especially since his daughter died hours before this incident.
- She eventually knocks out and kidnaps the horrified Saadia when she finds out her brother Connor is The Druid.
- When Saadia pleads with Jen to turn herself in, Jen ignores her chance for redemption, and instead tries to kill Saadia with a pocket knife.
- After Saadia and Dan get away from Jen, Jen tries to come back and kill them both with a big sharp sword.
- While she isn't completely accountable for her brother's kills, she still planned and coordinated everything with him, making her as guilty of the people Connor mercilessly tortures and murders.
- Some of these murders include: Beheading Frank Dixon with an axe, force feeding Xander Lemmon boiling water and repeatedly stabbing the crotch of Joe Lickers.
- Despite having one of the lowest individual bodycounts of the series (6), The Druid's murders were so horrendous and gruesome it set off a new Heinous Standard in the series that future killers should follow in order to stand out.
- She was eventually surpassed by the killer of the fourth season, The Gentleman, who is actually Pure Evil. However, Jen's murders still shock people to this day and Kaili's vivisection is still regarded as the most undeserved and hard to watch murder of the show.
- The Widow, killer from the fifth season, featured overly censored murders which failed to bring the level of on-screen brutality Jen set on the show despite her higher bodycount, thus making her still stand out.
- While some of her victims were bad people, it runs moots as Jen's punishments are severely disproportioned to the majority of these peoples actions.
- The other half of her victims were just outright innocent, with their only sin being just not being involved into The Rijkers' scandal.
What Makes Her Inconsistent?[]
- Despite leading her brother astray, she genuinely loves him and is outright terrified and hurt when she finds his charred body inside the furnace where they burned their victim's bodies.
- She also obviously loved her mother and is trying to avenge her death by killing the tenants who indirectly made her commit suicide and who did nothing to help.
- She actually cares for her best friend Saadia despite using her an an alibi, and manipulating her into thinking that her attack was real. She even tries to reason with her when she discovers she is The Druid. During her death, she confirms that she's always loved Saadia, that they were always best friends, and that their relationship was real.
- She is played too sympathetically and has a genuine tragedy. She endured harassing, bullying, and even death threats, just because her mother made a bad Tweet (acts that continued even after her death) and saw her mother burn to death in front of her and her brother's eyes. Saadia and Kaili even sympathize with Jen's tragedy.
- She also watches her brother contemplate committing suicide and tearfully begs him to not go through with the action. She even tearfully says that if Connor were to commit suicide that she would also commit suicide after him, because she cannot stand losing him.
- Her death is also played with sympathy with Saadia crying over her body as she dies, holding Jen's hand, and and sad music playing. Even if her killings are way too violent and gruesome to root for her, her tragedy isn't downplayed enough for NPE.